Introduction, Lexicology as a science

Key words :

Phraseological unit

The most peculiarities of phraseological units
Different approaches to the study of phraseological units
Stability of phraseological units
Idiomaticity of phraseological units
Classification of phraseological units according to their semantic and grammatical inseparability
Proverbs, sayings and quotations
The history of phraseological units
The discussion among the linguistics about the state of combinations, like “give up”
The synonymy of phraseological units
The polysemy of phraseological units

Answer the following questions

1. What is a phraseological unit? 2. What are the most pecularities of phraseological units?
3. What is academician V. V. Vinogradov's classification of phraseological units based on?
4. How does prof. N. N. Amasova classify phraseological units? 5. What is the stability of phraseological units? 6. What is the ideomaticity of phraseological units?
7. Why does prof. A. I. Smirnitsky say that phraseological units are the word equivalents? 8. Why do we include proverbs, sayings quota­tions in phraseological units? 9. What is the history of phra­seological units? 10. What kind of discussion of the so-cal­led word groups as «give up» was among the linguists? 11. What is the synonymy of phraseological units? 12. What is the polysemy of phraseological units?

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LECTURE 11 WORD-COMPOSITION